“What you Northerners never appreciate . . . is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn
“The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to perpetuate itself. What has no past can have no future.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.”
― To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
― To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
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